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Human Rights
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Something’s Happening Here: Michael Brown and Willie Horton
In 1986, a black Massachusetts prisoner serving a life sentence for murder brutalized a Maryland couple during a weekend furlough. The prisoner's name was Willie Horton. During the 1988 …
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What’d They Get You For
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Clashing Face-to-Face on Torture
Ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern wasn't going to let the ex-House intelligence oversight chief get away with a bland defense of torture in a rare, televised debate.
Mike Lofgren | The Implications of the Torture Report
The political game is so rigged that something like this was to a degree foreordained. It also explains why no one will ever be tried, at least in a …
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Torture Report: What Next?
Without a plan to recommit to the rule of law and hold torturers accountable, the same abuses could be repeated in the future.
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Connecting Police Violence Against People of Color and People With “Mental Illness“
Racism intersects deeply with discrimination and violence against people of all races who are perceived as unstable or “mentally ill.”
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Scalia Is Dead Wrong on Torture
Torture is about as immoral and unconstitutional as it gets, but that's not how Antonin Scalia sees it.
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The Drone Program’s Excesses Are the Symptom, Intelligence Overreach Is the Disease
Much like their torture program, the CIA drone operation has been demonstrated to be far less effective than the agency claims.
Stop Torture! Accountability: YES – Impunity: NO
Statement and petition initiated by two former UN Assistant Secretaries-General, UN Humanitarian Coordinators for Iraq: Hans von Sponeck and Denis Halliday.
US Torture: Past, Present … and Future? Beyond the Torture Report
What's at stake here is the kind of country we want to be: Are we a courageous nation ruled by laws or a nation of cowards?